Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1855
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The foregoing analyses of cotton-seed justify and explain the use made of them by the Southern planters, in preparing the soil with the rotted seeds, as a special manure for Indian corn, which draws so 238 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. largely on the soil for phosphates. It will also be seen that, since the cotton-seed oil-cake contains nearly 8 per cent, of nitrogen, and nearly 6 per cent, of hydrogen, the elements of ammonia are pre- sent in sufficient quantities to form about 10 per cent, of ammonia,... a powerful stimulant to vegetation, and a solvent and carrier of hu- mus into their circulation. The carbon is more than sufficient to take up all the oxygen in the formation of carbonic acid, another ac- tive fertiliser ; and the excess of carbonaceous matter will remain and form humus, or vegetable mould, which the alkalies, soda, potash, and ammonia will, in part, dissolve and carry into the circulation of plants, which possess the power of approximating and converting it into their tissues.
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